As soon as I got home to see my mother for Seder, she asked me to read her palms. “Yes, it has been awhile since I have read them,” I answered. I had read her cards just months prior to the sudden death of my father, in which I had predicted she would greatly increase her independent functioning in the coming year. The subject of whether I should read for her has hence been rather delicate between us.
The migration of a sperm whale came to an end with the animal’s burial April 10-three days after it was first sighted in the waves off of Sands Beach. Although the thirty-foot whale initially washed up on the shore of Isla Vista early Sunday, the tide moved the body past the shore bordering UCSB’s campus and onto Goleta Beach.
Nine children from a Ukranian orphanage spent their last night in the United States, April 10, at the home of Hope Ranch resident Laurel Rubin, following a Central and Southern California tour that their sponsors hoped would find adoptive parents for them.
Mollie faces her fear of needles, ventures to Student Health, and uncovers the myths, the truths-and little known facts-about Gardasil and the fight against cervical cancer.
Santa Barbara online columnist Craig Smith says he was watching the Master’s Golf Tournament on TV saw “and this year’s winner Zach Johnson get choked up as he credited Jesus for helping him win the tournament on Easter Sunday.
On Monday afternoon, word came from the National Labor Relations Board’s regional office that two more complaints will be tacked onto the laundry list of unfair labor practice charges being filed against the Santa Barbara News-Press: the entry of News-Press attorney David Millstein into a union meeting last February and the alleged videotaping of union rallies by newspaper management. That brings the laundry list of federal complaints up to 19. UPDATED: Barry Cappello’s response is included in this Tuesday morning update
Polish is so not the new sexy. If it was, I’d have to make a few changes to my appearance, like growing a mustache and dying my hair bright orange.
Joining nearly 600 other patients across the country, Lompoc firefighter Nancy Johnson recently filed suit against Biomedical Tissue Services, a now defunct New Jersey based company accused of illegally collecting body parts from cadavers-some of which were diseased-and selling them for use in transplants. In 2005, Johnson received a bone allograft supplied with tissue from BTS at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital, and she claims she contracted Hepatitis C as a result.
The arraignment for Ricardo Juarez, the prime suspect in the murder of 15-year-old Luis Angel Linares, has been pushed back to April 27, due to the public defender’s request for more time to review discovery files.
The Santa Barbara Rape Crisis Center (SBRCC) will direct their focus on a younger crowd this April, during the nationally recognized sexual awareness month. The group plans to launch a new campaign, aimed at Junior High School students, titled “Tools for Change: Building Lives Free From Sexual Violence.”
